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Featured Games

Warframe

Developed by:
Digital Extremes

Warframe is a cooperative free-to-play third person online action game set in an evolving sci-fi world. Team up with your friends and be an awesome team of cybernetic-enhanced space ninjas? What's not to like!?

This War of Mine

Developed by:
11 bit studios

In This War Of Mine you do not play as an elite soldier, rather a group of civilians trying to survive in a besieged city; struggling with lack of food, medicine and constant danger from snipers and hostile scavengers. The game provides an experience of war seen from an entirely new angle.

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Aurora

Developed by:
Steve Walmsley

Aurora is a freeware, 4X space simulation game, designed by Steve Walmsley and released in 2004. Difficult to learn and slow to play, this is a game well-suited to people who like deep strategy and don't mind poor UI. It is constantly being updated and the latest version is v7.1.

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Goat Simulator

Developed by:
Coffee Stain Studios

Goat Simulator is the latest in goat simulation technology, bringing next-gen goat simulation to YOU. You no longer have to fantasize about being a goat, your dreams have finally come true! WASD to write history.

Clockwork Empires

Developed by:
Gaslamp GamesInc.

Take on the role of a Junior Bureaucrat (Colonial Grade), sent forth to seek fame, promotions, and natural resources to feed the ravenous maw of Imperial Industry & Commerce. Build a prosperous colony, fill it with magnificent factories worked by oppressed labourers, and harness the awesome power of steam through fearsome machines invented by determined men and women of Science! History is yours to seize for fame and fortune, for Science, and for the Queen and the glory of the Clockwork Empires!

Technobabylon

Developed by:
Technocrat Games

The year 2087 is upon us — a future where genetic engineering is the norm, the addictive Trance has replaced almost any need for human interaction, and an omnipresent AI named Central powers the city. Its all-seeing CEL police force keeps tabs on everyone, including three people who are about to meet their maker.

The Binding of Isaac

Developed by:
Edmund McMillen

When Isaac’s mother starts hearing the voice of God demanding a sacrifice be made to prove her faith, Isaac escapes into the basement facing droves of deranged enemies, lost brothers and sisters, his fears, and eventually his mother.
The Binding of Isaac is a randomly generated action RPG shooter with heavy Rogue-like elements. Following Isaac on his journey players will find bizarre treasures that change Isaac’s form giving him super human abilities and enabling him to fight off droves of mysterious creatures, discover secrets and fight his way to safety.

Starbound

Developed by:
Chucklefish

Starbound is an extraterrestrial sandbox adventure game in which you take on the role of a character who's just fled from their home planet, only to find themselves lost in space with a damaged ship. Their only option is to beam down to the planet below and begin gathering the resources they need to repair their ship and set off to explore the vast, infinite universe…

Factorio

Developed by:
Wube Software

Factorio is a game in which you build and maintain factories.
You will be mining resources, researching technologies, building infrastructure, automating production and fighting enemies. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, apply management skills to keep it working and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.

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To Be or Not to Be

Developed by:
Tin Man Games

William Shakespeare’s Hamlet has finally been restored to its original second-person non-linear branching narrative format. Now it’s up to YOU to decide what happens next. Play as Hamlet and revenge your father’s death. Play as Ophelia and make scientific discoveries. Play as King Hamlet, Sr. and die on the first page!

Firewatch

Developed by:
Campo Santo

Firewatch is a single-player first-person mystery set in the Wyoming wilderness.
The year is 1989. You are a man named Henry who has retreated from his messy life to work as a fire lookout in the Wyoming wilderness. Perched high atop a mountain, it’s your job to look for smoke and keep the wilderness safe. An especially hot, dry summer has everyone on edge. Your supervisor Delilah is available to you at all times over a small, handheld radio—your only contact with the world you've left behind.

Secrets of Grindea

Developed by:
Pixel Ferrets

Secrets of Grindea is an old-school Action RPG with co-op support for up to 4 players. It is a tribute to and sometimes a parody of the old SNES games so many of us grew up with and loved! Journey through fantastical lands and battle tons of different enemies and bosses in your quest for truth, friendship and, above all, finding the world's rarest treasures!

Rimworld

Developed by:
Ludeon Studios

RimWorld follows three survivors from a crashed space liner as they build a colony on a frontier world at the rim of known space. Inspired by the space western vibe of Firefly, the deep simulation of Dwarf Fortress, and the epic scale of Dune and Warhammer 40,000.

Darkest Dungeon

Developed by:
Red Hook Studios

Darkest Dungeon is a challenging gothic roguelike turn-based RPG about the psychological stresses of adventuring. Recruit, train, and lead a team of flawed heroes against unimaginable horrors, stress, famine, disease, and the ever-encroaching dark. Can you keep your heroes together when all hope is lost?

Freedom Planet

Developed by:
GalaxyTrail

Fight your way across the celestial world of Avalice where cats are green, motorcycles drive up walls and monster girls do most of the buttkicking! Freedom Planet is a cartoony, combat-based platform adventure that pits a spunky dragonoid and her friends against an alien attack force.

Banished

Developed by:
Shining Rock Software

In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.

Dwarf Fortress

Developed by:
Bay12Games

Dwarf Fortress (officially called Slaves to Armok: God of Blood Chapter II: Dwarf Fortress) is a part construction and management simulation, part roguelike, indie video game created by Tarn and Zach Adams. Freeware and in development since 2002, its first alpha version was released in 2006 and it received attention for being a two-member project surviving solely on donations. The primary game mode is set in a procedurally generated fantasy world in which the player indirectly controls a group of dwarves, and attempts to construct a successful and wealthy underground fortress.

Prison Architect

Developed by:
Introversion

Inspired by Dungeon Keeper, Dwarf Fortress and Theme Hospital and with over 1 million players having spent time inside, Prison Architect is the world’s best lock-­em-­up.
Build and manage a Maximum Security Prison. As the sun casts it’s early morning rays on a beautiful patch of countryside the clock starts ticking. You’ve got to crack on and build a holding cell to detain the job­ lot of maximum security prisoners that are trundling to your future prison on their yellow bus.

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Undertale

Developed by:
Toby Fox

Looking a lot like a retro, top-down RPG from the early 8-bit days, Undertale surprises and inspires with its interesting and innovative fight/befriend encounter mechanics. Highly praised for its dark story and witty humour, Undertale takes your preconceptions of the RPG genre and crushes them into little pixely bits.

Starsector

Developed by:
Fractal Softworks

Starsector is a single-player sandbox style space role-playing game with strategic elements. That’s quite a mouthful, though, so here’s what it boils down to – fly around with your highly customizable fleet, explore, build stuff, blow stuff up, advance your character. The goal is to give you lots of meaningful choices in a malleable world.

Cosmochoria

Developed by:
Nate Schmold

Cosmochoria is a love letter to old-school action / arcade games like Asteroids, Sinistar, and Mario Bros. Cosmochoria is a mesmerizing way to kill hours: hopping between planets, unraveling forgotten mysteries, killing aliens & giant space monsters and planting mysterious seeds to sprout new life across a long-barren galaxy.

To The Moon

Developed by:
Freebird Games

Beneath the cutesy, top-down, 2D graphics of many similarly produced RPG Maker games lies an interactive story that's chock full of emotion. Voted (by us) as 2011's game 'most likely to make you cry', To the Moon is difficult to describe without spoiling it, so if you get the chance, catch the stream!

Axiom Verge

Developed by:
Thomas Happ Games LLC

A failed scientist dies in an accident, only to awaken in a mysterious, alien world.
Where is he? How did he get here? And why do the fundamental laws of reality appear broken?
Life. Afterlife. Real. Virtual. Dream. Nightmare. It's a thin line.
It's Axiom Verge.

Papers Please

Developed by:
Lucas Pope

A Dystopian Document Thriller.
The communist state of Arstotzka has ended a 6-year war with neighboring Kolechia and reclaimed its rightful half of the border town, Grestin.
Your job as immigration inspector is to control the flow of people entering the Arstotzkan side of Grestin from Kolechia. Among the throngs of immigrants and visitors looking for work are hidden smugglers, spies, and terrorists. Using only the documents provided by travelers and the Ministry of Admission's primitive inspect, search, and fingerprint systems you must decide who can enter Arstotzka and who will be turned away or arrested.

The Long Dark

Developed by:
Hinterland

The Long Dark is a first-person, open-world survival adventure. You play the part of a sole survivor of a crash after an undefined global disaster. The game features realistic elements of survival such as hunger, thirst and exposure, and the player must explore to find shelter, as well as the means to survive in the frozen wastes.

Guests

One of the best bits of IndieWeekend is when we get some dialogue going with indie devs to talk about their games. See what's coming up below!

Starsector

Cabaal, and Obumbrata will be talking to the developers of Starsector - check the card below for full details about this RTS/RPG/Space sim!

Saturday: 21:00 GMT | 16:00 EST | 15:00 CST | 13:00 PST

Make your own game

Didlix will be chatting with James, one of the developers of TechnoBabylon. They'll be using Adventure Game Studio and taking suggestions from chat to create an adventure game!

Sunday: 12:00 GMT | 07:00 EST | 06:00 CST | 04:00 PST

Life in Bunker

Alex Satori will be introducing their upcoming management sim game, Life in Bunker. Take the role of a newly-elected bunker warden managing all facets of the bunker.

Saturday: 20:00 GMT | 15:00 EST | 14:00 CST | 12:00 PST

Welcome to QubeTubers’ 3rd IndieWeekend event. A 48 hour spectacular, featuring some fantastic streaming talent and some wondrous indie games – some you know and love, others you’ve probably never heard of.

Join us as we showcase some of the great independent titles out there – old, new, beta and early access games. Games from all genres and various graphic styles. Just take a look at the ‘playing cards’ above and you’ll see what a wide selection there is for this weekend.

Stay a while, watch, and if you enjoy some of the games we’re streaming, we’d love it if you went and supported the hard working indie devs by purchasing a copy of the game for yourself or your friends!

Schedule

Simply click on the tab for your timezone to see what’s coming up during the weekend.

About QubeTubers

Early YouTube days

In early October 2010, Syntria started Minecraft Girl Edition, a YouTube Minecraft LP series. This led to the creation of a streaming channel on LiveStream. Syntria began to build a small fanbase, and began to promote users (Axebane, Shay, Ben, etc.) to stream as well on her channel to keep it live more often. This quickly lead to a 24/7 LIVE dedicated Minecraft channel for a time.

GreyTheory

In mid-October 2010, Qubetubers was fortunate to be approached by Henry from GreyTheory to allow Qubetubers to use his server as a Minecraft SMP server. Thus, the GreyTheory server was born and this is where things exploded. On the back of regular Minecraft Alpha updates, the GreyTheory server was well utilised. Donators were fever-driven in helping to support Qubetubers and GreyTheory. Along the way, Qubetubers opened two more streaming channels for other games, began to conduct game giveaways on stream and obtained a Ventrilo server for the community.

The Qubetubers SMP

By late December 2010, the GreyTheory world had expanded several times and many great builds were featured on stream. At this time, Qubetubers finally had the funds to own their own server and develop a Minecraft SMP that we could call our own. Work began on the initial towns and by early January 2011, the server was opened to the public. Sadly, during this time, HenrySchwar had to close GreyTheory for personal reasons.

Charity and Celebrations

In the following nine months to September 2011, Qubetubers has been the home to quality game streaming, and many events including the massive Child’s Play event in 2011, a 48 hour streaming event that raised US$35000. Qubetubers was joined by many famous Minecraft celebrities guest streaming. We even welcomed Notch, C418 and deadmau5 onto our stream! Qubetubers eventually shifted from mainly Minecraft to playing all kinds of games on their streams. This was celebrated by IndieWeekend, a 24 hour event to promote Indie developers and celebrate their hard work.

Following on the success of the Child’s Play event, a second 48 Hour Minecraft Child’s Play event was held in August 2012. All records were broken when our initial US$50000 target was smashed by Notch in one $10000 swoop, and the counter went on to the $65000 mark. Yet again, we were joined by friends and celebrities of the Minecraft universe, and yes, including Notch! The event raised online awareness of our Twitch channel as well, and we now have the privilege of having a network of excellent streamers there.

Our second IndieWeekend took place November 2014 with a over 40 Indie-Games showcased, nearly a dozen Indie Developer guest speakers, and several Special Guest Streamers in a 48 Hour Marathon. We also raised $3500 for Child’s Play Charity during this event.

Our third IndieWeekend is what you’re looking at right now, omg! This one is just about indie games and indie developers, not for charity. For more details on why we made this decision, please read the post here.